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17-letter words containing o, a, r, l

  • counterchallenges — Plural form of counterchallenge.
  • country gentleman — a rich man with an estate in the country
  • courtship display — behaviour that is aimed at attracting a mate
  • criminal contempt — any seriously disrespectful act committed against the dignity or authority of a court.
  • critical constant — any of three constants associated with the critical point of a pure element or compound.
  • cromwellian chair — an upright oaken chair, often with arms, having all pieces turned and a seat and back panel of leather or cloth attached with brass-headed nails.
  • cross of lorraine — a cross with two horizontal bars above and below the midpoint of the vertical bar, the lower longer than the upper
  • cross-correlation — the correlation between two sequences of random variables in a time series
  • cross-lot bracing — bracing extending from one side of an excavation to the opposite to retain the earth on both sides.
  • cross-pollination — the transfer of pollen from the anthers of one flower to the stigma of another flower by the action of wind, insects, etc
  • cross-utilization — to make use of in an additional or different way.
  • crude oil cracker — A crude oil cracker is the part of a refinery and the equipment used for changing crude oil to its fractions, using heat and pressure.
  • cryptoclimatology — See under microclimatology.
  • cryptocrystalline — (of rocks) composed of crystals that can be distinguished individually only by the use of a polarizing microscope
  • cryptographically — In a cryptographic manner; using cryptography; for cryptographic purposes.
  • customs clearance — the permission to take goods into or out of a country once customs requirements have been satisfied
  • cyanogen chloride — a colorless, volatile, poisonous liquid, CNCl, used chiefly in the synthesis of compounds containing the cyano group.
  • cyclooctatetraene — a colorless, flammable liquid cyclic hydrocarbon, C 8 H 8 , used in organic research.
  • cypriot syllabary — a syllabic script in use on Cyprus in the first millennium b.c., used for the writing of Greek and of an unknown language.
  • cytomegaloviruses — Plural form of cytomegalovirus.
  • cytotrophoblastic — Relating to, or containing, cytotrophoblasts.
  • dark-complexioned — (of a person) having a dark complexion
  • data flow diagram — (programming)   A graphical notation used to describe how data flows between processes in a system. Data flow diagrams are an important tool of most structured analysis techniques.
  • david copperfield — a novel (1850) by Charles Dickens.
  • dead to the world — unaware of one's surroundings, esp fast asleep or very drunk
  • decellularization — (biology, medicine) The loss of cells from tissue.
  • decriminalisation — (chiefly, British) Alternative form of decriminalization.
  • decriminalization — to eliminate criminal penalties for or remove legal restrictions against: to decriminalize marijuana.
  • defamiliarisation — (arts) The representation of objects anew, in a way that we do not recognize, or that changes our reading of them.
  • defamiliarization — Art, Literature. a theory and technique, originating in the early 20th century, in which an artistic or literary work presents familiar objects or situations in an unfamiliar way, prolonging the perceptive process and allowing for a fresh perspective.
  • dehydrochlorinase — an enzyme that catalyzes the removal of hydrogen and chlorine atoms or ions from chlorinated hydrocarbons.
  • dehydrochlorinate — to remove hydrogen chloride or chlorine and hydrogen from (a substance).
  • delay instruction — delayed control-transfer
  • dematerialisation — The act or process of dematerializing.
  • dematerialization — The act or process of dematerializing.
  • denatured alcohol — ethanol rendered unfit for human consumption by the addition of a noxious substance, as in methylated spirits
  • dendroarchaeology — (archaeology) the science that uses dendrochronology to date wooden material from archaeological sites.
  • dendroclimatology — The science that uses dendrochronology to reconstruct historical climate conditions.
  • denial of service — a deliberate interruption in access to a computer system or network, esp by using multiple computers to generate an unmanageable volume of traffic (distributed denial of service)
  • denial-of-service — pertaining to or being an incident in which a computer or computer network is disabled, disrupting access or service: a website hit by a denial-of-service attack; unintentional denial-of-service problems.
  • deoxyribonuclease — DNase.
  • depersonalisation — Alternative spelling of depersonalization.
  • depersonalization — the act or an instance of depersonalizing
  • dephosphorylation — the removal of a phosphate group from an organic compound, as in the changing of ATP to ADP.
  • deprofessionalise — to remove from professional control, influence, manipulation, etc.
  • deprofessionalize — to remove from professional control, influence, manipulation, etc.
  • dessert chocolate — cooking chocolate
  • development grant — a grant awarded, esp by a government, to a person or company in order to fund the development of a new product
  • dialect geography — linguistic geography
  • dicarboxylic acid — any carboxylic acid that contains two carboxyl groups per molecule
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